Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read “So how is it being the mom of three kids?” My cousin asked me the question as we sat in the sunshine outside of Starbucks. She’d just spent a year as a nanny to four. And she wanted to know my secret. Because she thought I had motherhood all figured out. “Most days, I feel…
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read “I’m not an artist.” I’ve said that so many times. Usually I’m referring to my lack of drawing and painting abilities, and that statement does have some basis in fact. But if you pressed me – “What about writing? What about restoring furniture? Decorating? What about gardening?” I would either brush it off as “not…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “You want to know the secret to staying happily married?” grinned the wizened, white-haired man. “What’s that?” I asked with a laugh. This was going to be a good one, knowing him. “A few fingers in the armpits every so often,” he stated, with a twinkle in his eye. I laughed. There’s been more than…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read When we spend more time search for assurance than we do acting out of belief, we are chasing God. –Angie Smith in Chasing God If pinning organizational ideas on Pinterest was all that is required, my house would be perfectly organized. If outlining a weekly to-do list that included dusting and cleaning the bathroom was…
Callie Mitchell 6 Minute Read I am in Carthage, at the turn of the third century AD, and she has just become beautiful. At least, she has just discovered that she is beautiful. As her ornatrix adorns her with braids and jewels, I learn that she is Vibia Perpetua, the daughter of a Roman Senator, a woman of great wealth,…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read I don’t know anyone who would say that their life has been a bed of roses. There are good times and there are hard times and they come to each of us. As bibliophiles, we go to books in the hard times just as we do in the happy times. Several members of our writing…
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read E-readers will never take the place of real books in my heart. A new book (preferably a very old “new” book) sends little tingles of excitement through me in a way that a Kindle cover just can’t. But in this season of life, I’m grateful for another, generally more accessible way to read. And once…
Kindred Grace Team 5 Minute Read Bittersweet actually sat in a stack of books on my bedroom floor for almost a year before I dug out the decadent looking blue cover. But once I opened its pages, I couldn’t put it down.
Katie 3 Minute Read I couldn’t believe my eyes! I gasped aloud at the incredulity of it. Someone was backing into my car — as I stood there and watched! Completely oblivious to the fact that I was watching, the man didn’t even get out of his car to check the damage. My blood pressure soared – what was he…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read When I turn the last page of a good book, it’s always with the hope that I won’t forget the experience, that I’ll be able to keep living the pages long after I’ve closed the cover. This feeling is especially true with Tsh Oxenreider’s Notes from a Blue Bike. As we gear up for the busy…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read I was raised without a TV. Perhaps that’s why Tsh Oxenrider’s passion for a life that isn’t dominated by a television resonated. To me, it makes perfect sense, of course there’s more to life and entertainment than a television. Entertainment, in all its forms, is so easily accessible in our technology-soaked culture; we can hardly…
Danielle Carey 4 Minute Read The end of January and the start of February are, in Australia, crazy times. After Australia Day on the 26th of January, a new school year begins for everyone from kindergarten to year twelve. A month later (give or take a couple of weeks), tertiary students head to university to begin or round out their…
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